Improvement in car-starters



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CAR-STARTER.

Pate nted April 4, 1876.

J11 ve 72 to r UNITED STATES PATENT tOFFICE.

BENJAMIN SANFORD, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-STARTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. I 75,764, dated-April4, 1876; application filed January 8, 1876.

a cross-section.

The book A, to which the team is hitched, is attached to a sliding bar,B, which is located in the frame on a level with the top of the wheels0. To the rear end ofthis bar is jointed the upper end of a divided=lever, D, which, in the two parts of it below, is connected looselywith the ear-axle E. Between the parts of this divided lever, and madefast to the axle, is a ratchet-wheel, F, and between the sarhe, andabove the ratchet, is adroppawl, G, hungon a pin, 6, near the upper endof the lever.

The draft-tar is connected in any suitable manner with the brake for thewheels, and

when the brake is applied in stopping a car this bar is thrown back, sothat the pawl rests over the ratchet; hilt when the draft is again Iapplied in starting the team the pawl catches into the ratchet, and theaction of the lever, by the forward movement of the bar, applies anadded force to the axle, and assists in starting the Ear; but after thefirst action in stating the car the arm H of the pawl, sliding in theloop I, lifts the pawl out of its connection with the ratchet, and thewheels roll on.

The leverage on the axle in starting a car is from the periphery of thewheel, which adds largely to the working power of the lever in BENJAMINSANFORD.

Witnesses HORACE HARRIS, J. O. TUNnRIDGE.

